James henry haines



(No Model.)

J. H. HAINES. PORTABLE SHAMPOOING BASIN.

No. 590,883. Patented Sept. 28,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT Y @FFICE.

JAMES HENRY IIAINES, OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF NINE-SIXTEENTHS TO CHARLES GRIFFIN AND JERRY M. CERTAIN, OF SAME PLACE.

P ORTABLE SHAMPOOING-BASIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 590,833, dated September 28, 1897.

Application filed June 12, 1896. Serial No. 595,337. (No model.)

T atZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES HENRY HAINES, of Tampa, Hillsboro county, Florida, have invented a Portable Sham pooing-Basin,of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan of the upper side of my portable shampooing-basin. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 09 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 3

is a rear perspective view of my basin as applied to the back of a head to be shampooed. Figs. 4a and 5 represent simple devices by I 5 which my portable basin may be readily attached to a chair.

In the ordinary operation of shampooing the head after the hair has been cut the occupant of the hair-dressers chair is required to vacate the same and walk to a shampooing-basin permanently located in a stand forming a fixture of the apartment and is obliged to remain in a bent posture with the head over the basin While the barber showers,

rubs, and cleanses the head.

To simplify and obviate the inconvenience of said operation and avoid the expense of the fixed bowl and its permanent stand is the purpose of this invention, which consists in 0 a portable shampooing-basin having a pair of inclined guides, one on each side of a recess adapted to lit the neck of a person. for conducting and returning the water (after leaving the head) into the basin; and this inven- 3 5 tion also consists, in combination with a chair and said portable basin, of a simple means by which it may be readily attached to, supported by, and removed from the chair, to be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the said drawings, A represents the basin proper or receptacle for holding the water to be used 011 the head. an are two inclined guides projecting above its upper rim and extending from the front of the basin along its '45 periphery toward its rear to the points I) b,

opposite each other. (See Figs. 1 and 3.) These guides are symmetrical and of such shape attheir fronts as to form between them a curved recess 0, which is carefully adapted to snugly fit around the neck of the individ- 5o ual whose head is to be shampooed.

A low upright flange d extends around the outer (upper) rim of each guide a, which flange (when the fronts of the guides are located over the shoulders of the occupant of the chair and the recess a fitted to the back and sides of the neck) precludes the escape of thewater, after leaving the head, from running outside the basin and wetting the clothes of the occupant and reliably insures its return to the basin.

Thebasin with the necessary supply of water may be taken by the hair-dresser and its front applied to the back of the neck and made to rest on the top of the back of the chair and project over the shoulders of the individual whose head is being shampooed, I while the rear of the basin may be supported by pressing the form of the operator against it or by holding it with one hand, while with the other hand he successively applies the water with a sponge and rubs .and cleanses the hair and scalp. Should, however, the use of one hand in supporting the basin handicap the shampooer and he desire to manipulate the head with both hands, the basin may be temporarily supported on the hair-dressers chair, as seen in Figs. 4 and 5, in which ee represents a pair of pi ntles projecting up from the back of a chair B near its top, and h h a pair of eyes or rings projecting from the front of the under side of the basin, it being simply necessary to bring the eyes h in line with the pintles, and the front of the under side of the basin, being formed of an extended fiat surface (see Figs. 4 and 5) conforming exactly to the back of the chair, will snugly abut against'it and be firmly supported thereby. The said attaching devices enable the operator to instantly locate in position and 0 readily remove the basin at pleasure.

Other simple means of supporting the basin may be employed-such as hooks and rings, clamping-screws,- &c., which are well known and in common use for supporting various objects and things.

A strap may be connected with the rear of the basin and be passed over the neck of the operator and thus enable him to use both ininals b 1) project inside the line of the uphands in manipulating the head; but greater per edge of the bowl, the top of the outside freedom and convenience are insured by supof the front of the latter being cut away and porting the basin on the back of the chair, provided with screw-eyes 70 IL and the lower, 5 first removing the sliding head-rest. outside of the front of the bowl having a pro- 20 In the construction of my portable shan1- jecting flat surface to form a bearing against pooing-basin I prefer to employ a light nonand in combination with the back of a chair frangible material-such as molded paperhaving pintles c a to register with the screwpulp, sheet iron, or other sheet metal-Which eyes it 7t, constructed and arranged to oper- 10 may be nickel or silver plated and ornamentate substantially as described. 25

ed, if desired. IVitness my hand this 8th day of June, 1890.

I claim- JAMES HENRY IIAINES. A portable sl1an1pooing-basin consisting of In presence of a bowl A having inclined guide-wings a a N. \V. STEARNS,

I 5 with upturned flanges (Z cl, Whose lower ter- A. F. STEARNS. 

